# Noria Invest

> Noria Invest is a VC fund backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marcq-en-baroeul, France
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/noria-investissement
- Website: http://www.noria.eu/

Noria Invest is a VC fund in Marcq-en-baroeul focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Noria is a Franco-Belgian family investment company, based in Eurométropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai.As a long-term investor, Noria participates in the capital of companies at different stages of development: innovative start-ups as established companies, sustainable energy production projects or media content projects! These differentparticipations are all firmly in keeping with this perspective of contributing to a global ecology, in three specific areas:- The eco-energies, with a dominant towards the wind. - Alternating employment. - Publishing and the media.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $823k–$2.6M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.2M–$58M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 5 | 38% |
| Renewable Energy | 5 | 38% |
| Solar | 3 | 23% |
| Industrial | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 46% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Celine Guillaume | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celine-guillaume |
| Christophe Guillaume | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christophe-guillaume |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jimmy | Jimmy develops and operates thermal generators that supply industrial facilities with process heat produced through nuclear fission. The company designs compact generators that use high-temperature reactor technology to create heat without combustion and deliver it to industrial systems through heat transfer circuits. Its systems connect to factoryinfrastructure and provide heat for processes such as steam production, thermal oil heating, or hot air generation. Jimmy installs, operates, and manages these generators as integrated energy units adapted to the heat demand of each industrial site. The technology relies on micro-reactor architecture and modular deployment so multiple units can be combined to match required thermal output. Through this approach, Jimmy provides industrial heat that replaces fossil-fuel-based heat sources in manufacturing and processing operations. | $46.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 09, 2026 |  |
| Cixten | Cixten is a company that recycles low temperature waste heat into other energy vectors by leveraging the features of supercritical CO2. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 15, 2024 |  |
| Elements | Elements is a producer and supplier of green electricity. | $53.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| NewHeat | NewHeat owns and operates solar heat plants. It engages in financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of solar heat plants that transform solar radiation into heat. It uses solar thermal collectors to transfer solar energy to water, steam, or thermal oil. | $32.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 20, 2023 |  |
| Geosophy | Geosophy develops real estate assets and manages energy usage by assuring a local supply for thermal comfort. Geosophy was founded in 2018 and is located in Paris, France. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2023 |  |
| Jimmy | Jimmy develops and operates thermal generators that supply industrial facilities with process heat produced through nuclear fission. The company designs compact generators that use high-temperature reactor technology to create heat without combustion and deliver it to industrial systems through heat transfer circuits. Its systems connect to factoryinfrastructure and provide heat for processes such as steam production, thermal oil heating, or hot air generation. Jimmy installs, operates, and manages these generators as integrated energy units adapted to the heat demand of each industrial site. The technology relies on micro-reactor architecture and modular deployment so multiple units can be combined to match required thermal output. Through this approach, Jimmy provides industrial heat that replaces fossil-fuel-based heat sources in manufacturing and processing operations. | $14.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 23, 2022 |  |
| Kyotherm | Kyotherm is an investment company that specializes in third-party financing of renewable heat production projects and energy efficiency projects.Kyotherm accompanies those that develop energy projects: energy service providers, engineering firms, developers, heat consumers, equipment manufacturers, etc., in securing third-party finance for theirprojects. | $50.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Lhyfe | Lhyfe is a developer, investor, and supplier of 100% green hydrogen for mobility and industry. | $58M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| DualSun | DualSun facilitates access to the BEPOS (positive energy building). The company has developed an innovative solar panel that provides both electricity and hot water to homes, on a reduced surface on the roof. Currently, conventional photovoltaic panels store unnecessarily heat. Thanks to its heat exchanger backing the panel, the DualSun recoversthis energy to produce domestic hot water in addition to electricity. Thus, the captured energy is used in its entirety. | $2.6M | Series C | May 25, 2018 |  |
| NewHeat | NewHeat owns and operates solar heat plants. It engages in financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of solar heat plants that transform solar radiation into heat. It uses solar thermal collectors to transfer solar energy to water, steam, or thermal oil. | $2M | Seed | Jun 28, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Noria Invest invest in?

Noria Invest invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Solar startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Noria Invest's check size?

Noria Invest typically joins rounds of $823k–$2.6M at Seed and $2.2M–$58M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Noria Invest participates in.

### How do I contact Noria Invest?

Public channels for Noria Invest include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Noria Invest?

The team at Noria Invest includes Celine Guillaume (Co-Founder) and Christophe Guillaume (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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